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America’s demented welfare mentality

James Kwak (UConn): “Social Insurance”, Risk Spreading, and Redistribution. Ann Cammett (CUNY): Deadbeat Dads and Welfare Queens: How Metaphor Shapes Poverty Law. From Pathways: A Magazine on Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy, a special issue on the "State of the Union". George P. Smith (CUA): Re-Negotiating a Theory of Social Contract for Universal Health Care in America or, Securing the Regulatory State? Arnold Relman reviews The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less by Elizabeth Bradley and Lauren Taylor. Why is the American Dream dead in the South? German Lopez on how the South could benefit the most from Obamacare. Obamacare will be vindicated by history: From JFK to FDR, here’s how the nation’s memory works. Annie Lowrey on the worst-case scenario for Obamacare. Why would anyone think Republican opposition to Obamacare is based on ideology as opposed to just money. Christopher Ingraham on how more than three quarters of conservatives say the poor “have it easy” but this notion is completely at odds with the data. Robert Reich on the three biggest Right-wing lies about poverty. Emily Badger on how the U.S. welfare system evolved to do the least for the people most in need. America’s demented welfare mentality: Matt Bruenig on how we choose to inflict misery while protecting the rich. Paul Ryan’s poverty plan attacks the wrong problem and comes up with the wrong solution. Max Ehrenfreund on how the most conservative way to fight poverty is to send everyone a government check. Dylan Matthews on how a guaranteed income for every American would eliminate poverty — and it wouldn't destroy the economy.